Games like The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation on Steam

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Embark Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Similarity 47%
Price 24.50€
Rating 6.0
Release 18 Apr 2019
Hold Your Own A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?

Similarity 47%
Price 13.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 30 Nov 2017
Craft Hero Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero

Similarity 47%
Price 3.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 09 Oct 2022
DUCKSIDE Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.

Similarity 46%
Price 14.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Sep 2024
Dustland Delivery Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!

Similarity 46%
Price -49% 4.00€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Nov 2024
Until We Die Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Similarity 46%
Price 13.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 03 Jun 2021
Road to Eden Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Similarity 46%
Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Feb 2019
Primitive Society Simulator A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Similarity 46%
Price 18.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 Feb 2024
HumanitZ HumanitZ is a co-op, isometric, open world survival game in a world ended by the zombie outbreak. As one of the few human survivors, try to last as long as “humanly” possible. The past can’t be changed, but you can make a difference today for the future of humanity.

Similarity 46%
Price -68% 6.09€
Rating 7.4
Release 18 Sep 2023
Sapiens Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Similarity 46%
Price -18% 20.19€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Jul 2022
The Front The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Similarity 46%
Price -37% 12.45€
Rating 6.7
Release 11 Oct 2023
Return from Core Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.

Similarity 45%
Price -74% 4.30€
Rating 7.2
Release 17 Jul 2025
Fallout Shelter Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

Similarity 45%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Mar 2017
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Similarity 45%
Price 24.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 Apr 2025
ZED ZONE A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Similarity 45%
Price -62% 4.58€
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Mar 2023
Monarch : Medieval Remastered In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords,develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements

Similarity 45%
Price 11.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Jan 2020
Vectorio Classic The original, uncompleted version of Vectorio. Claim resources, unlock new buildings, and expand your defenses as you fight back against enemy forces in the classic edition of Vectorio! Play for free now.

Similarity 44%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Mar 2021
Colony Survival Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Similarity 44%
Price 24.95€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Jun 2017
DYSMANTLE Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Similarity 44%
Price -49% 10.36€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Nov 2021
Sunkenland Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Similarity 44%
Price -52% 9.51€
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Aug 2023
Gunsmith Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.

Similarity 44%
Price 17.50€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 May 2018
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Similarity 44%
Price -49% 10.36€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 May 2018
Xsyon - Prelude Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.

Similarity 44%
Price 27.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 Dec 2014
Citywars Tower Defense Citywars TD is a cute multiplayer third person Survival Tower Defense. Build towers, gather resources, craft tools, upgrade weapons, level up buildings, expand your city with your friends and work under pressure before the next incoming wave of monsters.

Similarity 43%
Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 03 Mar 2022